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Statistical Methods for the Chain Ladder Technique Revisited: Source: Statistical Methods for the Chain Ladder Technique Demo
Background Forecasting outstanding claims and setting up suitable reserves to meet these claims is an important part of the b...

Patrick Burns' informative and entertaining books for R programmers, 'S Poetry' and 'The R Inferno', which have long been available as free downloads, are now available in an attractive hardcover format from Lulu Press and are on 25% sale through the end of January (use discount code LULUBOOKUK305). 'S Poetry', although written more than a dozen years ago for...

A commenter on this blog reminded me of one of the frustrating aspects faced by newbies, not only to R but to any other programming environment (I am thinking of typical students doing stats for the first time). The statement … Continue reading →

Today I was typing to a friend who is working on a Ph.D thesis about my favor issue on elections: campaign contributions. We discussed about analyzing probabilities of a particular group/category grasp more money than the others, in this case, male and female given a district. A preliminary approach should consider identify in the data

It has always been a dream of mine to incorporate R graphs and analysis in an Advent Axys report. The unbelievable work from the guys at Statconn http://rcom.univie.ac.at/ make this dream possible. If we use the same perhstsp.rep created fo...

Last year, the Statistics and Mathematics Department of the Vienna University School of Economics and Business presented a research seminar series on optimization, taught by R Core Group member Kurt Hornik (with Ronald Hochreiter and Stefan Theussl). Even if you couldn't make it to Austria to attend the course, the course materials are available online, and make an excellent...

As a PhD student that uses quantitative methods a lot, one annoying part of my job is to type up my results, especially formatting tables with regression models can be a lot of work. Luckily there is an excellent package in R, apsrtable, which will gen...

in the last post i showed how to get the nominal north east atlantic landings data from 1950 onwards into a usable format in R. this time around a script that shows how to import zipped excel files from 1903 to 1949 is provided. finalizing with a ggplo...

R, just like other programming languages, has different types of objects. Matrices, arrays, data.frames, lists, vectors, tables, etc. But by far the most important for working with baseball data is going to be dataframes.I'm not sure of the level of ex...

This is the first lesson of CloudStat School, Lesson 1: Overview of R Language & CloudStat School.
The objective of this lesson is introducing R Language and how you can be a R programmer or a data analyst through CloudStat School.
At the end of this l...